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Originally Posted by Franky
Mr Sparkle could you shed the light on how you get these to download fast....
Even with 512 broadband I struggle to get the speed over 10kb/sec and even then it jumps back to 1kb/s and starts slowly building then falling then building ARHHHH!!! I've tried all different programs too but for no avail At this rate it'll take a week just to download 1 episode.
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You can get better performance by ensuring your hardware/software firewalls are allowing traffic through the port used by your torrent software. I use the Azureas torrent client and depending on the number of torrent seeds, it goes pretty quick. Don't use BitTorrent - it's crap. Try Azureas and check it's help file for more settings to tinker with for greater performance.
But all in all it can be a patience tester, at worst it might take a few days to get an episode, but a few days is quicker than 6+ months to wait for it on SBS! :evilking:
Once you've caught up and the next new season starts, you'll find that Mininova (or
http://www.finalgear.com) will have episodes up and available for download typically 24hrs after they show in the UK. They generally show at 8pm UK time, meaning the torrents are normally available to start downloading tuesday PM Aus time. I normally would kick one off on a tuesday evening, and it would be done when I woke up ready to watch after work Wednesday.
There's a thread in The Bar about downloading TV shows and the like, I haven't read it but it might help a bit too.